This is an analysis of the poem Barclay Of Ury that begins with:
Up the streets of Aberdeen,
By the kirk and college green,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabccb Xdeffe aAgccg ggcaaX ccXccb hhXccX cciddi jjXccc ccbccb aakllX cXbhhb mmeggX ddiaai Xheaae nngkkg ffgffX ccacca ccdkkd hheaae ffoccpXhhoaap
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011101 101010 1011101 1011101 101010 1010101 1110101 101010 1010101 1111101 111110 1011101 1010101 111010 1011111 10010101 101110 10101110 11101010 111110 1011111 1111101 101010 10101001 1010111 101011 1011101 1011101 111110 1010101 1000101 101111 1110111 1010101 001100 1111111 11101101 101111 1000100 1101101 101111 1001111 11100101 111110 10011101 1011101 111010 1011101 0010101 101010 1010101 1011101 001010 1011101 1111101 101010 1011111 1011101 011010 1011101 1010101 101010 1010101 1010111 111010 1111001 1110101 111110 11011001 1110101 100010 1010101 1011101 011011 1111101 1010101 011011 111010110 1111101 101010 10100101 1111101 011010 1010101 1011101 101010 1010101 1010101 111110 1011101 1100101 101010 1011101 0010111 101110 1010101 1010101 0101010 1110111 1010011 101010 1011001 1010101 011010 10011111 0011101 1010110 1011101 1010011 1001010 1110101 1010101 000010 1001101 1011101 001111 1011101 1010111 101010 1011001 1010101 001011 1010101 1110101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hard, after are repeated.
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